Thursday TV Tips: An Irish couple pitch their changing mat for babies to Dragons' Den
The Wriggler on Dragons' Den
Máirtín Tom Lee from Leitir Mealláin in Galway is this week’s guest. In June 2006 he suffered a life-changing accident.
An Irish couple pitch their changing mat for babies which incorporates an anti-roll design.
Husband-and-wife team James and Aileen McCauley from Dublin came up with an award-winning invention: The Wriggler — an anti-roll portable baby-changing mat specially designed for babies and toddlers who wriggle and writhe during a nappy change.
Schoolteacher James and educational psychologist Aileen were inspired by personal experience with their own little boy to come up with The Wriggler, a portable changing mat with straps that resembles a bear character.
They say: "Given you change a baby’s nappy at least six times a day until potty training, which amounts to an incredible 6,500 times, it’s a possible godsend for 40% of parents who report feelings of stress and frustration as they grapple with their little wriggler at changing time."
“In our wildest dreams we never imagined that an idea dreamt up at our kitchen table could have resulted in us appearing on BBC TV on Dragons’ Den” add the couple.
Fergal Megannety in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, is building a beehive shaped like a Russian dacha in honour of his wife Svetlana. Michael Judd in Kilmoon, County Clare creates a stunning crescent moon seating area and firepit from locally-sourced stone. And Geri Canavan in Westmeath, draws inspiration from Marie Antoinette’s chambers at the Palace of Versailles.
Joey Essex speaks about the pain he was feeling over the death of his mother at the same time he was rocketing to fame on . The reality TV star, 30, was 10 when his mother Tina took her own life.
Essex says that going through school was "tough" and his father thought he would end up working in the fish market. However, his life changed when he was cast in a reality show about the lives of young people in Essex: "I was still a kid really, I had failed at all these jobs, and then it was like, boom, I was on Towie."
"So all that heartache and pain of not being able to work, I didn't know who to run to, I had no money, nothing, and then the next minute, boom, everyone knew me in England, I was the most famous boy in the UK, everyone knew my name, I had loads of money coming in. It was crazy for me. And I was dealing with pain at that time, which no one knew about. It was still there, trust me. It was hard. It was overwhelming for me, I couldn't believe it, and all I was thinking was, 'I wish my mum was here. What is this? Why is this happening? It was crazy."
Final episode. On June 22, 1921, England’s King George V and Queen Mary arrived in Belfast for the official opening of the first parliament of Northern Ireland. An examination of how political tensions and outbreaks of sectarian violence threatened to destabilise the new state.
June seeks out more active rebels in the Chicago war zone.
Andorra v Republic of Ireland (ko 5pm). RTÉ2
2FM, 10pm: Dan Hegarty presents highlights from UK band Shame's recent BBC 6Music Festival set, including tunes from recent album 'Drunk Tank Pink'.
